This is truly beyond belief. TCS Daily writer Maureen Martin reports on a Seattle school that banned Legos in an attempt to teach children that private property is evil. The kids had built a whole Lego-town, which the teachers saw as an opportunity to teach children that ownership is bad and that property leads to "class-based, capitalist society -- a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive." Of course, in some ways, this really does teach kids an important lesson about property rights, and about those who would violate property rights. The end of property rights means that "'All structures are public structures' and 'All structures will be standard sizes.'" In other words, property rights help protect our individual uniqueness, our special personal identities. Abolishing property rights puts uniformity and singularity over variety and diversity.

The judge nominated to be the next chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court has at least on unfortunate eminent domain decision to her name, according to this article.

Not much can be discerned without knowing the specifics, though it should be noted that Connecticut's citizens might be a bit leery in general, as their state gave birth to what became the Kelo decision.

"The basic rule in America has always been that government must give you your day in court before it takes your property," said Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Timothy Sandefur, who filed a friend of the court brief in the case. "But in Maryland and other places, bureaucrats have been exploiting their emergency powers when it's not an emergency. They try to take property first, and ask questions later. It's wonderful to see the court issue such a strongly worded decision striking down such practices.

"Unfortunately, both the federal Supreme Court and the Maryland Court of Appeals allow government to take land through eminent domain and give it to private developers. But under the quick take procedure, bureaucrats don't even have to go through a trial to figure out whether their plan is legal, or what the property is worth. That means that if the owner eventually wins in court, he comes back to find that his property has been destroyed in the meantime. So the rules are unfair to begin with-and government doesn't even play by those rules."